Matthew de Jonge

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Matthew de Jonge

Matthew de Jonge

@MattHdeJonge

CEO @ Fortell

New York, NY Katılım Kasım 2024
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Matthew de Jonge
Matthew de Jonge@MattHdeJonge·
Thrive was the first to back us 5 years ago and has remained an unbelievably great partner ever since: leading subsequent rounds, helping us bring in the right partners, help with recruiting, data, PR, and so much more. Thank you Thrive and congratulations on Thrive X!
Joshua Kushner@JoshuaKushner

We are pleased to announce the close of Thrive X. Exceeding $10 billion, Thrive X comprises $1 billion designated for early-stage investments and $9 billion designated for growth-stage investments. We do not view this as a milestone, but as a commitment to the long work ahead. We view Thrive as a company. Our product is partnership - the willingness to commit deeply to a small number of founders, and to stand with them through momentum and adversity. This is the discipline we bring to our work, and the responsibility we accept when founders partner with Thrive. We do not hedge. Concentration demands loyalty to the founders and missions we back. In this moment, exposure alone is not a strategy. Judgment without commitment is not enough. Advantage will accrue to those who choose deliberately, commit deeply, and endure through difficult moments. Thrive was founded to be an enabling technology for the world we want to see. We are deeply aware that we are not the main character. The founders that we are fortunate enough to partner with are the artists. Our role is to help create the conditions where great work can come to life. We take a long view grounded in the belief that category-defining companies tend to create structural compounding advantages over long arcs. This fund reflects the continuity of our approach and the ways our work has deepened alongside the founders we support. We are grateful for the trust our Limited Partners place in us, and for the opportunity to work alongside those who are building with purpose, integrity, and courage. thrivecap.com/thrive-x

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Eddie@radres·
@artlevy art, maybe wall street admires them, but reality? credit cards are dying. crypto and cashless society are here. they’re just clinging to old cash cows.
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Art Levy
Art Levy@artlevy·
Great article by Forbes on the win-win here Wall Street has long admired American Express’ position in having a card-processing network and large businesses in personal and corporate cards. “This deal, combined with the Discover acquisition, gives them most of the pieces they need to replicate a very similar model."
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Josh Wolfe
Josh Wolfe@wolfejosh·
You cant love JAPAN 🇯🇵 more. They have a restaurant: the restaurant of Mistaken Orders. All the waiters have DEMENTIA. They may or may not get your order right and it is beautiful humanity.
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Aaron Levie
Aaron Levie@levie·
The capability overhang right now in AI is pretty massive. Most of the world still thinks of AI as chatbots that will answer a question on demand but not yet do real work for them. Beyond coding, almost no knowledge work has had any real agentic automation applied to it yet. The past quarter of model updates is going to open up an all new AI agent use-cases across nearly every industry. The winners will be those that can figure out how to wrap the models in the right agent scaffolding, provide the agent the right data to work with context engineering, and deliver the change management that actually drives the change in workflow for the customer. This is what 2026 will be about.
frankie@FrankieIsLost

there’s a billion dollars inside the opus 4.5 model weights and you just need to type the right claude code prompts to get them out

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Matthew de Jonge
Matthew de Jonge@MattHdeJonge·
Lux has been a terrific partner to us in building Fortell.
Lux Capital@Lux_Capital

We started Lux in 2000 with a simple conviction: the biggest opportunities lie at the frontier of science and technology that others find too hard, too early, or too confusing. Twenty-five years later, that conviction hasn't changed. What has changed is that the world has caught on. Now compute, automation, and biology have matured into scalable engineering disciplines, and what was once fringe "deep tech" has become essential infrastructure. New talent, new tools, and new industrial capacity now exist to turn the most cutting-edge technology across the physical, computational, and life sciences into enduring businesses. For these businesses and founders to become category-defining winners, they need meaningful capital and conviction. That is why we are especially excited to announce our largest fund to date, Lux Ventures IX, a $1.5B commitment to investing in the people turning sci-fi into sci-fact. Today entire sectors of aerospace, biotech, defense, industrials, transportation and beyond are being reinvented by a new generation of brilliantly ambitious, often irreverent, scientists and engineers. And while markets have changed and capital reshapes around fewer companies and larger checks, our focus on the craft remains constant. That focus matters because science doesn’t scale itself. The path from a result in the lab, only known to a few, to something durable the entire world will use requires a different kind of partnership. One that deploys the first $100K and the last $100M, that stays through the full arc of company-building, that mobilizes a powerful network of kinetic like-minded founders, and that treats capital as a tool rather than the product. Forty-four people at Lux now manage $7B, still operating with the same discipline and purpose we had on day one. We find and fund founders others have overlooked, back conviction over consensus, and build alongside these rebels of science and tech at every stage. We’re grateful to our valued LPs who've partnered with us through multiple cycles, and to the founders who trust us with their life's work. The mission continues, with even greater intensity and momentum. luxcapital.com/news/announcin…

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Josh Wolfe
Josh Wolfe@wolfejosh·
1/ Foretell is out of stealth Backed by Lux, Thrive, Founders Fund, Valor + @patrick_oshag + @GavinSBaker WIRED: "Want This Hearing Aid? Well, Who Do You Know?
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WIRED
WIRED@WIRED·
Despite the din, the testers clearly make out what the person in front of them is saying. The clouds lift. Angels croon. Read the full article: wired.com/story/hearing-…
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Josh Wolfe
Josh Wolfe@wolfejosh·
4/ Lux is proud to be partnered with Fortell founders Matt de Jonge, Igor Lovchinsky, Andrew Casper, and Cole Morris mensches on a mission...🦻 📈
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rat king 🐀@MikeIsaac·
@JamesTylerESPN damn. okay may have to look at it. i take much better care of hearing now than i did as a dumbass kid but i know i ruined a good chunk of it and i still have bad habits
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rat king 🐀@MikeIsaac·
didnt use earplugs for years and am paying for it with tinnitus (not nearly as bad as some whose ears are shot, thankfully) this is an interesting application...
WIRED@WIRED

A secret is percolating at dinner parties, salons, and cocktail gatherings among the august New York City elite. It’s whispered in the circles of financial masters of the universe, Hollywood stars, and owners of sports teams. Have you heard about Fortell? wired.com/story/hearing-…

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Kevin Twohy
Kevin Twohy@kevintwohy·
@patrick_oshag I've only had a few demos where I felt that "I just experienced something important for the first time ever" and this was one
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Art Levy
Art Levy@artlevy·
Very proud to be best friends with Matt and Cole for 25 years. Been amazing to watch them build Fortell over the past five years. No substitute for creativity x hard work x 150+ IQ This is the next DEXCOM (at least)
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Steven Levy
Steven Levy@StevenLevy·
Even before launch these AI hearing aids have become the in-ear Birkin bag of the elite (of a certain age). Here’s why. wired.com/story/hearing-…
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